NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A10109
SPONSOR: Ra TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend chapter 19 of the laws of 2009, amending the vehicle and
traffic law and other laws relating to adjudications and owner liability
for a violation of traffic-control signal indications, in relation to
extending the provisions of such chapter
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To reduce motor vehicle crash fatalities, injuries, and property damage
caused by motorists' failure to obey traffic signals by extending the
expiration date of the program to December 1, 2029.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The bill authorizes the County of Nassau to continue a local law estab-
lishing a 5 year demonstration program to impose monetary liability on
the owners of motor vehicles for an operator's failure to comply with
traffic-control indications within the County. The current law author-
izes the County of Nassau to install and operate traffic-control signal
photo violation-monitoring devices at no more than one hundred inter-
sections within such County at any one time.
The current law provides for the form of the evidence of liability and
its availability for inspection in adjudicatory proceedings, require-
ments for the information to be contained in notices of liability
("NOLs") and the method for delivery to owners alleged to be liable.
Requirements relating to the adjudication process are also provided.
JUSTIFICATION:
Installing Red Light Cameras at intersections with a high traffic acci-
dent rate in the County has served to prevent accidents and save lives.
The installation of Red Light Cameras has acted as a deterrent for driv-
ers from running red lights due to costs incurred when the driver is
caught on camera. Placement of cameras in the County has resulted in
safer streets.
Red Light Cameras have a strong track record of reducing traffic acci-
dents by as much as 80% at intersections where they are installed creat-
ing a safer environment for all according to studies done across the
nation. The goal of the red-light camera program is to change driver
behavior thereby creating safer streets.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This bill extends a program which was first authorized in 2009.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to state.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law and shall expire December 1, 2029.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10109
IN ASSEMBLY
May 6, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Transportation
AN ACT to amend chapter 19 of the laws of 2009, amending the vehicle and
traffic law and other laws relating to adjudications and owner liabil-
ity for a violation of traffic-control signal indications, in relation
to extending the provisions of such chapter
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 10 of chapter 19 of the laws of 2009, amending the
2 vehicle and traffic law and other laws relating to adjudications and
3 owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications,
4 as amended by section 3 of part TT of chapter 58 of the laws of 2019, is
5 amended to read as follows:
6 § 10. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
7 have become a law; provided, however, that sections three, eight and
8 nine of this act shall expire December 1, [2024] 2029 when upon such
9 date the provisions of [this act] such sections shall be deemed
10 repealed; [provided that the amendments to paragraph a of subdivision
11 5-a of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law made by section one of
12 this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such para-
13 graph pursuant to section 17 of chapter 746 of the laws of 1988, as
14 amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act
15 shall take effect;] provided that the amendments to the opening para-
16 graph and paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 1809 of the vehicle
17 and traffic law made by section four of this act shall be subject to the
18 expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to chapter 166 of
19 the laws of 1991, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of
20 section five of this act shall take effect; provided, however, that the
21 amendments to the opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1809 of
22 the vehicle and traffic law made by section five of this act shall not
23 affect the expiration of such subdivision and shall expire therewith;
24 provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision 2 of section 371
25 of the general municipal law made by section seven of this act shall not
26 affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 therewith; and provided, further, that any such local laws as may be
2 enacted pursuant to this act shall remain in full force and effect only
3 until December 1, [2024] 2029.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
